engaging enemy warships only once and sinking just one American carrier. -The Yamato's fate was sealed during Operation Ten-Go, a suicide mission in which the ship was sunk by American carrier ...

Editor’s Note: A Good Thunder farm boy and pilot Ensign Jack Carl Fuller died 80 years ago Monday in one of the key battles ...

The battleship Yamato of the Imperial Japanese Navy ... April 7 marks the 77th anniversary of the sinking of the Yamato. Its remains still lie at the bottom of the sea off the western coast ...

“The emperor would like to see positive results via the deployment of the Yamato,” surmised Yamada. After the battleship’s sinking, the emperor asked on April 30, 1945, whether “the Yamato ...

The ship was a technological wonder ... I felt like I, too, was sinking into the whirlpool of history swirling around the Yamato. It took on a metaphorical glow, a meaning far beyond a science ...

Alongside her sister ship Yamato, Musashi was among the largest ... had begun 11 years earlier and were based on four different sinking positions in the Sibuyan Sea, including both the "official ...

Of the just over 3,000 men aboard the Yamato on the morning of April 7, 1945, fewer than 300 were alive at day's end. In the interviews below, meet two Yamato veterans still haunted by memories of ...